False: Image of Taiwan KMT leader at ‘1949’ monument in Nanjing is AI-made
Viral image of Cheng Li-wun’s mainland trip seemingly taken at a politically sensitive stele was created with Google’s AI tools.
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虛假：網傳殘疾作家張海迪站立影片實為人工智能生成
影片的關鍵畫面，跟2012年新華社報道張海迪出席聯合國頒獎禮的新聞照片一致。影片極有可能是利用人工智能圖像轉影片模型生成製作。
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Misleading: ‘Hiroshima Romance’ fireball clip shows pyrotechnic display in US, not China
Viral videos claiming to show Chinese fireworks actually reuse footage of a staged fireball effect at a 2018 pyrotechnics convention in Iowa
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Analysis: Viral ‘broken-leg women’ video falsely links charity footage to fake ‘marriage custom’
Widely shared clips repurpose charity videos on rural poverty and disability, not marriage customs or domestic abuse
Explainer: Pet ID cards in HK aren’t official but fun; We got our own, too
Hong Kong doesn’t actually issue official identity cards for pets; the card images circulating online for years show novelty items. Annie Lab reporters ordered two such “pet IDs” to compare the process.
